Affective Disorders, Psychotic - History
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The work of Emil Kraepelin and his research group in München.

30 May 2008 Emil Kraepelin is well known due to his development of the psychiatric classification. The ICD-10 and DSM-IV classification is based on the dichotomy of endogenous psychoses into affective psychoses and schizophrenia as early as 1899. Moreover, ... Read more...

Medicalizing melancholia: exploring profiles of psychiatric professionalization.

30 Dec 2005 The nineteenth century was the site of radical changes in understanding mental illness. The professionalization of psychiatry consisted primarily of the discipline's aspiration to the status of an expert medical subspecialty. While all forms of ... Read more...

"Les psychoses passionnelles" reconsidered: a review of de Clérambault's cases and syndrome with respect to mood disorders.

29 Jun 1991 While de Clérambault's name has been linked to erotic delusions, he attempted to describe "pure" erotomania as a paradigm of a broader group of delusions. His own cases and a large number in the English and French literature seem to indicate that ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Affective Disorders, Psychotic - History'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Dr Jekyll impaired. 29 Apr 2009
• The work of Emil Kraepelin and his research group in München. 30 May 2008
• Medicalizing melancholia: exploring profiles of psychiatric professionalization. 30 Dec 2005
• [Affective disorders. Diagnostics, epidemiology and neurobiology--three fields which played an important role for the development of effective therapeutic strategies] 6 Jan 2004
• Lateralized temporal-limbic dysfunction and psychopathology. 1976. 29 Sep 2003
• [Life and diseases of Luther and the renaissance popes] 16 May 1997
• [Not Available] 30 Dec 1993
• [Germain Nouveau and psychiatry] 29 Apr 1993
• "Les psychoses passionnelles" reconsidered: a review of de Clérambault's cases and syndrome with respect to mood disorders. 29 Jun 1991
• Mood-incongruent psychotic affective illness. A historical and empirical review. 30 Mar 1991
• Leonhard and the classification of psychomotor psychoses in childhood and adolescence. 30 Dec 1989
• [Music therapy in the treatment of commander-in-chief Stefan Czarniecki's illness in 1659] 29 Sep 1988
• [The recessive inheritance of affective paraphrenia of King Ludwig and King Otto of Bavaria] 29 Nov 1986
• Kraepelin and the differential diagnosis of dementia praecox and manic-depressive insanity. 30 Oct 1986
• Lithium salts in the treatment of psychotic excitement: John F Cade. 30 Aug 1982
• The two manias. 30 Aug 1981

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Technical information about 'Affective Disorders, Psychotic'

Definition: Disorders in which the essential feature is a severe disturbance in mood (depression, anxiety, elation, and excitement) accompanied by psychotic symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, gross impairment in reality testing, etc.

Descriptor UI: D000341

Alternative terms: Affective Disorders, Psychotic; Psychoses, Affective; Affective Psychoses; Psychotic Affective Disorders; Affective Disorder, Psychotic; Disorder, Psychotic Affective; Disorders, Psychotic Affective; Psychotic Affective Disorder; Psychotic Mood Disorders; Mood Disorder, Psychotic; Psychotic Mood Disorder; Mood Disorders, Psychotic; Depression, Reactive, Psychotic;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; complications; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: F03.600.150;

Online Note: use AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC to search DEPRESSION, REACTIVE, PSYCHOTIC 1977-80; search AFFECTIVE DISTURBANCES under AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS 1969-80

History Note: 81; DEPRESSION, REACTIVE, PSYCHOTIC was see under PSYCHOSES 1977-80; AFFECTIVE DISTURBANCES was heading 1969-80